Super Bowl champ QB Russell Wilson: ‘I’m a recovering bully’
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Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson is seen on the field as a cool competitor, a young but talented player who doesn’t buckle under pressure and who doesn’t play dirty.
But that wasn’t always the case.
In a frank and revealing essay posted on The Players Tribune, Wilson admits that he was a violent bully growing up. He claims he threw kids against walls, bit them and even knocked teeth out.
Wilson says anger management was his issue, and that spiritual faith at the age of 14 saved him from a life of further violence. Still, he admits that a bit of that bully still exists, especially when he is in the middle of a football game.
The young Super Bowl champion makes it clear that any aggressive behavior needs to be confined to the field. Wilson acknowledges that the domestic violence epidemic extends beyond the NFL, but he felt that he had been silent for too long on the issue and was motivated to do his part as the NFL grapples with its own problems.
Wilson has started the Why Not You Foundation and the organization’s first initiative is called Pass the Peace. It’s simply a promise to be kind to others, and when the promise is made, Wilson is asking everyone to make a donation of $2 or more to The National Domestic Violence Hotline. The donation can be made via text by texting WNYPassThePeace to 41444.
To conclude his essay, Wilson says he’s not a perfect person, that he’s just a “recovering bully.” But he also says that NFL players have no excuse for violence off the field.
